LinkedIn was launched to help professionals showcase their skills and experience to others. Since then it has evolved into comprehensive platform to help job hunters and hiring managers alike with the job hunting. With the new features being added on an ongoing basis you can not only showcase your skills, but also get endorsements, write professional articles and research companies. Similarly, hiring managers can post their jobs, screen potential employees and find the perfect employee for the job. This balance between job hunters and hiring manages has helped LinkedIn grow to become the go to place for professionals. Below we describe what LinkedIn has to offer to both communities.

Despite reports that the ‘mining boom’ is over and recent downturn in the industry, the resources sector is still a lucrative field in which to build a long and rewarding career. Those who are willing to work long hours and in demanding conditions can still find good opportunities with high pay and good benefits. Read on to find out some of the biggest employers in the industry and how you can start working towards a mining and resources career.

Choosing the right clothing for any job interview requires some thought, but the stakes are especially high if you are applying for a job as a designer. The first impression potential employers have of your design sense is how what kind of outfit you wear. It takes less than a minute for interviewers to form basic impressions of your character and style sense. So how do you ensure that you present the best yourself to the interviewers and make the right first impression?

With so many qualified job candidates on the market, it’s not always easy to find and recruit the best ones for your company. As the Baby Boomer generation retires and the market fills with even more educated and qualified young talent, it’s going to get still more difficult to sort through them all. Luckily, all hope is not lost.

Do you have a career portfolio? Believe it or not, many people don’t. If this doesn’t alarm you, it should, because a well-organized career portfolio can make the difference between being hired for the job, or having your resume tossed in the trash bin. For this very reason, career portfolios are rising in popularity – and fast.

Randstad Technologies have recently released the findings of the 2014 Salary Survey, showing the differences, or lack thereof, in technical salaries across the UK. With a tradition of higher salaries in the capital, and lower salaries offered regionally, how does the South East fare on the pay scale?

The common saying is that school days are the best days of your life, but that’s before you get to university. Streamlining your education into a subject you enjoy and love with the aim of moving into employment in that field afterwards can seem a long way from the subjects that you loathed at secondary school.

Ever wondered how executives get recruited for the positions they occupy? Well, if you did, then the people at Pierce Grey, the executive search and recruiting firm, have got you covered.

They’ve come up with a handy infographic that covers all the major angles of the executive hiring process and all the steps leading up to it. In fact, you can check out the infographic itself right here, on their website.

Running a manufacturing facility requires a combination of the right location, equipment, finances and human resources. While many manufacturing processes are designed in a way that minimizes human error, it’s still important to make sure that a company has access to the best employees for its budget. The following guide supplied by Peachey Plant Hire of the Gold Coast (http://www.peacheyplanthire.com.au/) provides effective tips and tricks for hiring manufacturing plant employees.

As a business owner, you understand the importance of having a well-trained team of employees to run your business. Each employee plays a critical role in the overall function the facility, but growing businesses have a need to expand their team and to hire skilled workers to fill new openings in the company. The unfortunate truth, however, is that many companies struggle to find the right individuals to fill specific openings. You certainly do not want to compromise when hiring employees because how important they are to developing or manufacturing your products, serving your customers or otherwise assisting the company through administrative functions. There are a few steps that you can take if your company is expanding and you are looking for effective labour hire solutions. If you’re in Brisbane, you can look at the companies like AWX for your labour hire needs.